On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Henning Glawe wrote: > Moin, > are there any news on the --command-fd option of dpkg ? > I compiled dpkg re-enabling this option and hacked up apt to use it, and > didn't encounter any problems (installing 1059 packages via FAI). > Maybe the option could be "officially" re-enabled ?
It'd not what apt needs to work. when dpkg exits, apt needs to know why it did so. When using command-fd, apt wouldn't know what package caused the error. The real solution, is to have another reporting fd, and modify dpkg not to exit when there is a packaging problem, but instead report the error on this new fd.
